Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Post-modern by Douglas Kellner
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Media Culture
Summary
This title develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music and other artefacts to discern their nature and effects. It presents a series of studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and provide methods of analysis and critique.
Media Culture Summary
Media Culture Reviews
"[A] book that masterfully integrates the most important theoretical insights of the field with a brilliant series of textual readings that demonstrate what it means to actually do cultural studies . . . an indispensable book."
-Henry Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor, Penn State University
"There is really nothing quite like this book on the market. It can be sold as both a book on theory and on method . . . Timely, important and refreshing."
-Gail Dines, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College, Boston
"An excellent book by any standards . . . Kellner has a particular talent for making difficult ideas easy to grasp. For this reason it is likely to be a popular teaching text, facilitating accessibility whilst simultaneously offering a significant theoretical and analytical development in the field."
-Jim McGuigan, Coventry University
-Henry Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor, Penn State University
"There is really nothing quite like this book on the market. It can be sold as both a book on theory and on method . . . Timely, important and refreshing."
-Gail Dines, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College, Boston
"An excellent book by any standards . . . Kellner has a particular talent for making difficult ideas easy to grasp. For this reason it is likely to be a popular teaching text, facilitating accessibility whilst simultaneously offering a significant theoretical and analytical development in the field."
-Jim McGuigan, Coventry University
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Theory/Context/Methods 2. Media Culture, Politics, and Ideology: Hollywood Film in the Age of Media Politics 3. Diagnostic Critique, Deconstruction, and Social Anxiety: Fear and Trembling in the Middle Class and Disaffected Youth 4. For a Multiperspectival Cultural Studies: Black Voices From Spike Lee to Rap Part II: Media Culture/Identities/Politics 5. Reading the Gulf War: Production/Text/Reception 6. Miami Vice, Advertising, and the Construction of Postmodern Identities 8. Mapping the Present From the Future: Baudrillard and Cyberpunk Conclusion
Additional information
GOR001375420
9780415105705
0415105706
Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Post-modern by Douglas Kellner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1994-12-22
368
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